From bhess at techrg.com Wed Oct 3 14:54:28 2007
From: bhess at techrg.com (Bill Hess)
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:54:28 -0400
Subject: [Detroit-pm] The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2007 is October 13-14,
2007
Message-ID: <47040F94.8030305@techrg.com>
The 2007 Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is only 10 days away.
The Pittsburgh Perl Mongers are pleased to announce The PITTSBURGH PERL
WORKSHOP, a two-day, low-cost conference on Saturday and Sunday, October
13-14, 2007.
The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is an annual conference dedicated to the
Perl programming language. In 2006, the Pittsburgh Perl Mongers hosted
the first Perl Workshop based in the United States. This year, the
Workshop has been expanded to two days. The 2007 Workshop is structured
as a series of short lectures, but the atmosphere is low key and
engaging: the perfect combination to open your mind and then cram it
full of good stuff.
After last year's conference you gave us lots of feedback, and we listened.
* The workshop was expanded to a two-day event to allow for more talks,
birds-of-a-feather sessions, and social interactions.
* A one-day course for programmers with little or no Perl
experience?-taught by a world-class Perl trainer?-was added.
* The schedule has been improved to allow you more flexibility in
choosing sessions to attend.
Lightning Talks
There?s still time to get a third of your fifteen minutes of fame!
Submit your lightning talk today. The deadline for early acceptance is
one week before the conference (October 6). But if you have an idea on
the first day of the conference, we?re holding at least two lightning
talk spots until the end of that day. However, you have a much better
chance of being accepted if submit your talk now.
Stay up to date with everything that's going on with the Perl Workshop
by subscribing to our RSS feed at http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/atom/en.xml.
If you are coming to the Friday Social, RSVP at
http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/wiki?node=Friday%20Social.
Full details are on the Workshop Web site at http://pghpw.org.
Hope to see you there.
Robert Blackwell
From Todd.Chapman at eprize.com Wed Oct 10 06:44:37 2007
From: Todd.Chapman at eprize.com (Todd Chapman)
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:44:37 -0400
Subject: [Detroit-pm] Big Detroit.pm Announcement!
Message-ID: <2CB0627B78B5434B90E746FB3DFE491C01812CAA@bart.eprize.local>
Hello all,
The Detroit Perl Mongers was restarted last year after several years or
dormancy. The last year has seen a steady group of dedicated people
meeting most months to talk about all things Perl related. Last month we
celebrated the first year of the new Detroit Perl Mongers with a beer
and BBQ social that was a huge success. But frankly we want more from
our group. We want more people at our meetings and more people
volunteering to present. Detroit.pm never limited itself to Perl only
presentations but somehow that's all we ever had. How did that happen?
:)
So we have a new group that will encompass all dynamic languages. That
means Perl, Ruby, Python, Lisp, Scheme, PHP, ActionScript, and anything
else you can think of. What we don't have is a new group name yet, so
we'll leave that to our next meeting. Meetings will still be hosted by
ePrize. Out next meeting is Tuesday, October 16th at 7pm. Chad Carr will
present, Building Lisp web applications using HUNCHENTOOT.
"A modern web application framework built in Common Lisp, HUNCHENTOOT
allows very rapid development, as well as tight integration with
development tools, remote debugging, and dynamic code deployment."
And if Lisp isn't your thing, Ken Fox will be presenting on tied objects
in Perl. I think both presentations will be very interesting!
The meeting location is One ePrize Drive, Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069. The
meeting starts at 7pm with food provided by ePrize. Please RSVP to
todd.chapman at eprize.com so we can be sure to order enough food for
everyone.
Todd Chapman
todd.chapman at eprize.com
Software Engineer
ePrize
From wolfger at gmail.com Thu Oct 18 08:28:14 2007
From: wolfger at gmail.com (Wolfger)
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:28:14 -0400
Subject: [Detroit-pm] 3 things
Message-ID: <3b00b3330710180828lba79212u3f8797730a857ab4@mail.gmail.com>
1) I've been thinking about the call for presentations, and what I
might know well enough to even consider trying to show to others.
Would there be much interest in a beginner-to-intermediate
presentation on regex (regular expressions)? If so, I think I can put
something together in time for the December or January meeting.
2) detroit.pm.org is still down, or down again.
3) Did I hear somebody at the meeting volunteer to do a flier? I could
put some up around the Chrysler Tech Center. Rumor has it, there's
some Perl people here (just not in my particular group).
--
Wolfger
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From wolfger at gmail.com Thu Oct 18 10:55:17 2007
From: wolfger at gmail.com (Wolfger)
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:55:17 -0400
Subject: [Detroit-pm] 3 things - Regex a good topic
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References: <3b00b3330710180828lba79212u3f8797730a857ab4@mail.gmail.com>
<0989fb3700003811@us.yazaki.com>
Message-ID: <3b00b3330710181055v32422a36la28b551b935b7e58@mail.gmail.com>
Allen, your reply went only to me, not to the list. I notice this is
the list default (just as it was for a long time on the Ubuntu
Michigan LoCo list), and I think that makes for a really poor group
dynamic. I know this group is focused on the monthly real-space
meetings, but I think a more active mailing list (which would be
facilitated by the default reply going to the list and not the
individual) might help give folks more of a sense of being part of a
group, rather than just a collection of people who go to see
presentations together once a month. :-)
On 10/18/07, Allen Jasewicz wrote:
> I have been an infrequent attendee and looking for something to bring me
> back in. I script in ksh, awk and sed in a UNIX environment and have
> found it difficult to make the jump to Perl. This difficulty is mostly
> centered around handling output from system and application commands
> when called from within a Perl program. I think that regex and how to
> manipulate text output from system calls would be a great topic.
Perfect, then. My last project was just that... a Perl script that did
most of the actual work via executing shell commands, and then
regexing the results.
> Please feel free to contact me if you need an example of why a resistive
> system scripter remains that way.
I'd be happy to look at one of your examples, and see if I can't
change your mind about Perl (which, by the way, a business associate
of mine refers to as "Sed & Awk on steroids").
--
Wolfger
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